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I get that Hannibal did a pretty good job setting Will up, but Alana's specific comments toward Will are really not consistent with that being the only issue. Saying Will "is responsible" for the crimes suggests that he does have some level of culpability; then in the next episode she's insistent that it's not his fault (ie, he did it physically but he's not responsible for it). That's a really big thing to go back on, whether she's trying to support him by making him feel better or support him in terms of providing stability. Though the most telling, and the most frustrating, was the comment at the end of last week that "I hoped a conviction would be less frightening for you," which strikes me as a scaled-up version of the condescending "everything happens for a reason!" that people like to give when they're trying to make themselves more comfortable with someone else's suffering. I think it's a very realistic picture of someone who's so deep in I Feel Your Crisis losing so much perspective that they're actually prioritizing that personal emotional experience over trying to figure out what the person in crisis needs. That's different from not believing Will's story. She could believe Will did it and still keep her head enough to ask him what he thought about getting a breather from being on trial for his life.

I think i must have skipped most of the episodes Beverly was featured in last season, because I didn't know much more about her than who she was, but I've been finding her interesting as well. I like her pragmatism. I'm also not surprised that it's someone who doesn't feel as much personal investment in Will has been the steadiest, probably most helpful, influence on him in the last few episodes.